> When I try to build the latest kernel from sun-lamp on my SE/30,
> the kernel fails to exec init. It looks like the arguments are
> hosed when they are get to execve. Has something changed in the
> copyin/copyout semantics, or in locore?
I had this problem too. Reason is, Chris calls copyinstr() in the new
exec code with a "pretty large" maximum buffer size, which is clearly
larger than the 64k supported by the original locore.s. I just added some
test statements to forcibly limit the maximum to 64k, and exec worked
fine again.
-Markus
PS: hope to check in current sources today.
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